Toward the Clouds, Together!

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1 Toward the Clouds, Together! Collaboration effort of European NRENs in Cloud Computing Branko Radojević, Deputy Director, CARNet/GEANT E-Infrastructure Autumn Workshops Chișinău

2 Where do I come from? NRENs.000 institutions users 2

3 GEANT last 15 years? Network! GEANT - GEANT 2 - GEANT GEANT 3 plus - 3

4 GEANT3plus, SA7 - GOALS A new activity in GN + project which handles: Support to Clouds ANT, want to bring cloud services to the European Research and Education community, through a model where they are able to provide their users with: choice openess, ease of use a safe and secure work and learning environment 4

5 CLOUD QUESTIONAIRE NRENs perception of clouds Which cloud components NRENs have in place and are planning to consume and produce How NRENs can collaborate on clouds through GN3plus, in the Support to Clouds activity (SA7) 5

6 CLOUD QUESTIONAIRE High response rate ( respondents from NRENs) Two-thirds ( %) of the respondents indicate that cloud services have had an impact on their organisation, with % stating that impact is high to very-high NRENs find cloud services appealing because of their flexibility faster deployment of new services agility easily scaled (elasticity) most cloud services are easy to use 6

7 CLOUD QUESTIONAIRE Majority of the NRENs (80%) are already working on clouds, with half of the respondents doing this through one or more specific cloud teams within their organisation Only four NRENs are dealing with clouds in a wellstructured manner, with a clear underlying strategy. Most NRENs are still in a start-up phase for their cloud efforts, which indicates opportunities for joint activities 7

8 CLOUD QUESTIONAIRE Almost all NRENS believe they should provide and operate their own cloud services (22 responses). The survey indicates that NRENs are willing to share components and offer services provided by other NRENs (ranging from a third to a half, depending on the type of service). About half of the responding NRENs want to broker cloud services (from commercial providers). A total of 19% of the respondents are already offering one or more services. Half of the respondents want to Integrate cloud services 8

9 Buy or Build? 9

10 How to achieve this? GEANT Support to Clouds Activities in four tasks: ADOPTION INTEGRATION BROKERAGE STANDARDISATION STRATEGY 10

11 How to achieve this? Task concentrates on Cloud Brokerage and Vendor Management Two main teams PROCUREMENT TEAM VENDOR MANAGEMENT TEAM (with multiple sub-teams per service type) 11

12 Procurement Team Analyze available models Traditional Procurement one winner per service type? Traditional Procureme multiple winners per service type? Less rigid mode cloud service certification! 12

13 Vendor Management Teams One of the easiest way to reach vendors attention: Demand Aggregation CARNet M users DFN M users SURFNet M users X NREN X X X X X X X X X Mkor. M users GEANT total of 50 million users 13

14 Vendor Management Teams Cloud Services by Type (sub-teams): IaaS SoftLayer, Cloud Sigma, T-Systems, GreenQloud, ATOS RackSpace, Amazon,...) On-line Office (Google, Microsoft, IBM,...) Web collaboration tools (Adobe, Cisco, Google, Blue Jeans, IBM...) Cloud storage (Google Drive, SkyDrive, DropBox, BOX,...) 14

15 Vendor Management Teams Talk to Vendors and try to achieve best possible deals (best terms & conditions, added value, data protection, Talk to NRENs (like GRNET) which would like to act as a vendors toward other NRENs Show to vendors that it is easier to talk with us, instead of + separate NRENs (and every time from the beginning) 15

16 Helping Vendors & NRENs To help vendors and NRENs, we are working on several documents: Terms and Conditions Requirements (FINAL) Market Analysis & Predictions in EU R&E Comm. (RC) Technical Guidelines for Cloud Services (D) Integration with edugain (FINAL) Peering with GEANT (D) 16

17 The Goal Establish Cloud dustribution model ANT cloud framework establish clarity on conditions of use, define requirements ANT cloud certification program apply framework: engage providers, certify compatible cloud services ANT cloud catalogue make certified services available in an online portfolio NRENs, cloud procurement contracting and adoption 17

18 Ultimate Goal Have at least two vendors in catalogue from each service type by the end of this year (December 2014). 18

19 Key benefits of our approach Vendors Talk to one entity (GEANT) access all users Promote vendor as a trusted partner Share with vendors what our users require Get access to fast network toward all users Simplify AAI integration NRENs (Institutions) Use cloud catalogue to get the information about CS Use already prepared terms & conditions Simplify procurement process 19

20 Thank you!